Evening Star Newspaper, August 3, 1930, Page 28

THE EVENING STAR With Sundsy Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. As & matter of fact the Moslem year, according to all avallable authorities, is SUNDAY........August 8, 1930 considerably more than two days shorter THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Ne oz II“ 5 . o] S i Sy e By S ise cred. é Fiehts of untication ."'E‘ rein are also reserved. Opening the Vista. Actusl_work on the demolition of the square of bulldings at Fifteenth and Pourteenth streets and Pennsylvania Avenue, to clear the space for a park, i fi organizsation of citizen soldiery that had 83 & rival the National Rifles, with an armory on G street between Ninth and fantry a8 Washington's largest and most elab- orate theater. It was called Albaugh's Opera House, becoming in later years Chise’s Theater and eventually Poli's. The Pennsaylvania avenue entrance was & comparatively modern development. ‘The other day, in a brisk windstorm, than the Christiap year. The Moslem calendar consists of twelve months that comprise one hejira year. Each month begins with the approximate new moon. A month's length alter- nates from thirty to twenty-nine days, and therefore each hejira year is 354 days in length, or eleven days less than the year of the Christian calendar with< month | out reference to the leap-year addition. If Zaro Agha is 156 Moslem yehrs of age, he s, again without reference to leap years, 1,716 days “younger” than if his age were measured by the Christian calendar, or more than four and a half but it suggests that Zaro Agha's man. ager should more thoroughly familiarize himself with the Moslem system of time The India Conference. ‘With adjournment of Parliament on Friday to permit John Bull and his sons to begin' shooting grouse on “The Twelfth"—Ii. e, August 13— Prime Minister MacDonald has made a significant announcement with respect to next October's India conference. When that momentous round table is assembled in London, the Labor chief- tain told the House of Commons this week, both opposition parties—Con- servatives and Liberals—will be invited to sit down with Labor to help solve the empire’s most burning problem. Satisfaction of Labor's foes at West- minster with this proposal is tempered . by Mr. MacDonald’s announcement that it is not at present intended to ask Sir John Simon or any other member of the Simon commission to participate in the commission’s recent report, some resentment is manifest over the pro- posed exclusion of the men who may bé supposed to have the whole Indian subject at their fingers' ends, in its ‘most.up-to-date aspects, at any rate. Lajor, the premier makes plain, will let opposition sit in [ the India conference, but without any right to | exercise any real influence. That is to remain the prerogative of the govern- ment. .“I must make it clear,” said Mr. MacDonald to the Commons, “that his majesty’s government cannot throw must retain complete freedom in regard to the proposals which it will subse- quently lay before Parliament.” There are to be no votes taken at the confer- ence. Indian Nationalists, who will be given the opportunity of taking part in it, are therefore assured In advance that they will run no risk of having their cause ridden over roughshod. On the other hand, they are equally certain that there is no prospect of imposing their independence views upon the con- “Indian ‘“peace envoys” have been the conference. As discussion at Lon- | don is bound to range mainly around| off its constitutional responsibility, and; woman was found by the roadside, beaten, so that she died a little later. Within the past few days two partic- ularly daring pay-roll hold-ups have taken place in broad daylight on the streets of Washington. There have been cases of hold-ups of cars waiting for the green traffie light. Interference may have been impossible in any of the cases. But if opportunity had presented itself, would any one have interfered? The Good Samaritan was not only neighbor to him that fell among thieves; he was & brave man. ——— A Oné-Man Car Peril. ‘The other afterncon an accident hap- pened in thif city which demonstrates the peril Involved in the use-of the “one- man cars” on lines in the District. A woman passenger alighting from the rear of such A car was caught by the hand in the closing of the automatic door and, unable to free herself, was compelied to run alongside for nearly & block. Her screams and the cries of pedestrians who noted her plight at last drew the attention of the mo- OUR READING HABIT BY THE RIGHT l;il’b JAMES B. FREEMAN, D. D, LL. D, op of Wash Text: “Understandest thou what thou readest?”—Acts, viii.30. “My mind to me a kingdom is,” was the wise observation of one who lad read widely and deeply. A friend who was stricken with a grave malady had his physician say to him during his morning visit, “I have no ol n it you care to do a little re g; you might find diversion in the papers and magazines.” The patient replied, “L don't think that is necessary; I have so many beautiful things stored up in my mind that T am glad to have op- portunity to think about trem.” My friend had read so long that he was seeking in his quiet hours to reflect upon the thoughts of the good | and the great. He was seeking to un- derstand more fully what he had read. He was able, even in days of pain and enforced quiet, to refresh and stimu- hwihimull with the treasures of his mine While we are much influenced by strong personalities with whom we come in contact daily, we are quite as much influenced by the books we read, | torman, who stopped the car and re- | leased the prisoner. ‘The door in this case is an automatic “devu:e which is supposed to close only when the alighting passenger has left the step. That it can and may close | before is shown by this happening. K'Thlllhe car can be started before the passenger is free from the car is like- | wise shown. This is a grave danger. | It has constantly been urged that a car operated by one man, who must be both motorman and conducter, is not safe, whatever the devices for security. | He has too much to do in opening | doors, collecting fares, making change, giving transfers and operating the | mechanism of the car. And reliahce upon an automatic device at the rear of the car, out of sight of the motor- man-conductor in many instances— always, when the car is filled—to enable passengers to leave the car at that end is especially unsafe, as this acci- dent -illustrates. It may have been that the passenger was careless in leav- ing the step, permitting her hand to remain within the range of the closing | door, but that is more the fault of the system than of the passenger. This accident should be studied by the Public Utilities Commission, to the | end of determining whether the one- | man equipment, however improved and supposedly safeguarded, is safe enough for use in Washington. The economy of one-man operation is not the most important factor. Public safety is the paramount consideration in street rail- way service. ————————— Rudy Vallee declares up in Massa- chusetts that he is “obsessed with the fear of some disaster.” If the minds of & lot of unappreciative males could | be read, 1t would be pretty well known | just what the disaster might be. N The famous giant tortoises of Galapa- jpanied by the only rain that has | making pligrimages to Mahatma Gandhi ! gos, threatened with extinction, are sald here for-nearly a month, one of on Fifteenth street, close main entrance to the down. It was merely not Tesist the blast. | British masters of India consistently | prelude to the de- of the old playhouse which thered so many changes of next two months, the outlook is gloomy | Jess around the Colosseum ‘and more so much local has been the scene of so notable per- buildings will Uing merost| Mayor “Bossy” Gillis of Newburypart, | runy say, Mass, should snnounce his candidacy | pe “wear's no man's collar.” new rapge red-headed Indiana beauty who got dates mixed found no fewer than eleven anxious swains waiting to escort work. Seeing no way out William A. Sargent of Boston plans #0 aid the tercentenary of the Massa- chusetts Bay Colony by loaning for ex- Ribition purposes his famed collection of Prench Hlustrated books of the XVIIIth century. What a rich haul that will be for the Watch and Ward Society! . How Old 1s Zaro Aghat ZTaro Agha, the aged Kurd who has Just come to this country, is not being received with compiete confidence in Bis clatm to bave lived for 156 years. of those people who are always the jov out of life, the actuary t life insurance company, chal- record of Zaro Agha and neral that there is no evidence human being has ever lived 106 years. He holds that certainly not over 100 years probably not more than 90 York actuary observes that who have claimed extreme recent years have lived in g i 3 » i TH i e TEA i i § i % rin, who in 1923 was said to TR §if Chinese government on prool i g in Yerovda Jail in the hope of compro- mising the eivil disobedience struggle. No signs are forthcoming that peace is possible except on terms which the reject as undebatable. If this atmos- phere continues to prevall during the for anything but dismal failure at Lon- don in October. “Going to the round table conference is running on a fool's errand,” one of Gandhi's unjatled lieu- tenants has just declared. S o “Bossy” Wants to Be Senator. It is by no means surprising that for the Republican nomination for United States Senator. He is that sort. He aspires to anything. When he de- then, ‘just to show that it was not a mere fluke, he ran a second time and won_ again. Save for his “freshness” and absurdity of speech he has made @ pretty good mayor. Newburyport has for him to its visitors, but evidently he is the kind of mayor a votems want, else he cffice. It is no won- success in these two has encouraged him to the senatorship. Of experienced politician would recognize the wide differenice be- tween a mayoralty and a senatorship, but “Bossy” has his own lines of rea- soning and thus far they have not been nings in just the same way as Gillis, | and who in office bear themselves in much the same manner. c———— Zaro Agha may not be 156 years old. but John R. Voorhis of New York, grand sachem of Tammany Hall. is honestly and truly 101. Both were botn, reared and have lived ali their lives in crowded | urban surroundings, which proves or disproves something or other. e Fate of the Samaritan. “A certain man went down from Jerusalem and Jericho and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his rai- ment and wounded him, and departed, 7 i § E i £ 3 : ined. He instances a native | priest, and lkewise a Levite, came byl * and looked at him and passed by on granted an oid age pension ! the other side. It was only the Samari- | slightest attention to flattery.” tan who stopped and took the man to bound Mis wounds and paid to take care of him it LELIY EB?E Ei!§§3 - I ] i k .;55; i gE38s ; i THE i (11 i to be able to find a safe haven in Hawail. Perhaps, if the natives do no(‘ | get to making bass ukuleles qut of their | ! shells. oo Visitors to Sunny Ttaly sometimes wish that Roman waiters would race around the dining room. The claim now is that Mahatma Gandhl is dodging the issue. His cos- | tume would seem to equip him to dodge almost anything. - David Belasco, busy at 76, can truth- along with the politicians, that | ————- The ex-Kaiser is a really eloguent preacher, declares Poultney Bigelow. So was Sitting Bull, but he got licked, too. | - ———— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Second Thought. Before 1 say & man is good— As good as he can be— I'm going to hold off a bit, For people change, you see. And men who years ago were called The greatest in the land Are found in enterprises which It's hard to understand. Before I say a man is bad And lost tomstincts good, I wait awhile. Perhaps he, too, Has been misunderstood. 1f good men now and then go wrong. It's reasonable quite To figure that it's possible For bad ones to go right. Promising. ! “You said that young man was & | promising politician.” “Yes,” answered Senator Sorghum, ! “I must say he promises things with all the ease and ability of an old | band.” V | Jud Tunkins says that his sojourn in | { the country | city life, with its modern conveniences, | used is not 30 bad, after all. An Occupation Gome. It people spoke the simple truth In language just and wise, The gossips all would die, in sooth, For want of exercise. | ' mmune. | “That young man never pays the| “No,” answered Miss Cayenne. “It | would be impossible to devise any !onn) of fiattery that would correspond to his good opinion of himself.” in some instances more so. Hence, the importance of the right kind of books. A clever interviewer, who was preparing a magazine article describing a man conspicuous in_public life, asked the privilege of looking over b‘; books on the shelves in his library. ‘hen asked the reason why, he replied, “I want to know the kind of intellectual clothing the man I am interviewing wears.” He felt that he could get a deeper look into the man’s philosophy of life by familiarizing himself with his intel- lectual pursuits and habits. He was probably impressed with the old adage, “Tell me the kind of books & man reads, and I will tell you the kind of man he is” It is true that we are much affected by environing conditions, by our associations and the social prac- tices in which we indulge. We are more impressed and our outlook upon life is more largely determined by the possil | book that disturbed and irritated him and so wel | BE ington. pllnn'“the writing of & new book, he that which gave alertness to his mind. It was a strange method, but one that he found profitable. Mr. Webster once declared, concerning one of his most memorable utterances, that he one of the most forceful and striking illustrations he used, and that gave compelling force to his address, was an _illustration gleaned from a book he had read 20 years before. A discriminating critic, who has iven much consideration to Lincoln's notable utterances, maintains that they betray a careful and painstaking study of the Bible. Mr. Lincoln, himself, said that the Bible, Shakespeare and Pil- grim’s Progress, along with the study of Euclid, constituted his major mental assets. He not only read and pondered these books, but had come to under- stand them. Macaulay observed that he was intellectually reborn by reading Lessing's “Laocaon.” ‘The most persuasive speakers on every platform are greatly influenced by their reading and undefihfldlflkfl( the Bible. It is remarkable to note how large a place these ancient phrases play in utterances that are arresting and convincing. The remarkable thing about the reading of the Bible is that it never loses its freshness. Passages that we have read and reread, like the facets of some jewel, present new colors and new beauties as we turn to them again and again. This is true, in a greater degree, of the Bible than of any other book. The late Senator Beveridge maintained that to him it was the most fascinating and entertain- ing book in his library. History, romance snd philosophy, all of these he found illuminatingly treated in the sacred page. To read simply as a pastime may prove diverting, but to read reflectively, and to understand what we read, means books we read. Sir Walter Scott de- clared that whenever he was contem- to recreate mind and to render it more productive. Pros.,and Cons of the Russian v “Convict Labor” Exports to U. S. ;Y WILLIAM HARD. Mr. Matthew Woll of the American Federation of Labor and of America's ‘Wage Earners’ Protective Conference has contrived almost by his lone self to fill the relations between the Republic of the United States of America and the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics of Russia with fogs and storms and thunders which the whole world at this week end is painfully endeavoring to penetrate and to comprehend under the glare of hourly lightning flashes from Mr. Woll's ic pen. Plenty of dazzled and stunned com- mentators claim they now clearly see ahead of us a world-wide boycott of all non-Russian countries against all Rus- sian It has faintly begun, they contend, under Mr. Woll's inspiration, with the orders issued by our Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Seymour Lowman, against certain cargoes of Russian_lumber and of Russian pulp- wood. The United States Government, | they apprehend, has determined to take advantage of Mr. Woll's asser- tions regarding the broad existence of “forced labor” in Russia and In initiat- !'ing & campaign of high-world politics for the extinction of Russian exports and for tHe extinction thereupon of the Russian Communist government. itself, * x x % So magnificent a plot on so ' vast an international scale, all growing out of a few cargoes of Russian forest products and a large number of drops of ink from Mr. Woll, deserves certain- ly the most intensive analysis. It will then be found to be no plot at all and yet at the same time contains, along With all its empty vapors, a certain solid core of potential international severe conflict in the future. In order to discriminate between what is trivial and what is transcend- ent in this matter it is necessary first to draw the line between the “convict labor” provisions on the one hand and on the other the “forced labor” pro- visions of section 397 of our present tariff law, Mr, Lowman's orders, as sc far issued, are wholly under the “con- vict labor” provisions and have noth- ing in the world t do with Mr. Woll's | general asseveral about the alleged general employment of “forced labor” in Russia by the Russian Communist | economic national authorities. Mr. | Lowman's existing orders were secured from him, not by the philosophical | generalizations of Mr. Woll, but by the | technical specific trade complaints of | the National Lumber Manufacturers” Association, The narrow _question | which Mr. Lowman to date has been called upon to decide 15 simply and solely the foliowing: { 1s “convict labor” used, or is it not, in the production of woodstuffs in the forests of Northern Russia? i %% x | The answer by the dmporters here is | that it is not. The answer by our offi- | . governmental, diplomatic and commercial observers on the edges of Russia is that it sbundantly is. The hearsay testimony of these ob- servers is thereupon denounced as be- ing “second-hand.” Thereupon, coun- terwise, the testimony of the importers is also denounced as “second-hand.” | The State Department meanwhile does not permit the United States Govern- | garding the rate readjustment, and| iain in that territory ‘an adequate sys- ment to maintain within Russia itself any “first-hand” observers of any sort whatsoever. It does not even, as this writer is authoritatively informed, | | maintain on its own sccount within | tions and would permit ready manipu- Russian any “secret service” agents. Mr. Lowman's official knowledge Russian conditions is therefore admit- of | | tedly derived from indirect and sec-| corresponding revenue effects will be ondary sources. The weight of those sources is nevertheless heavily on the side of the contention that thousands bas convinced him that upon thousands of Russian prisoners are { elimination of transit balances out- in Northern Russia logging and | sawing operations. Mr. Lowntay in such | greater safeguarding of revenues from circumstances exposed himself to misin- | terpretation through issuing orders so abruptly that wholly innocent shippers | with vessels already on the sea between | Northern Russia and the United States were subjected to possible great un- merited financial joss. This suddenness of his, however, does not shift the main | point of his final duty. That duty, Under section 307 will be to exclude | from the United States, upon fair no- | tice, all goods from Russia, or from | anywhere else, that are produced by | convict labor” either wholly or even e 3 e Mr. will then be able to de- | vote himself in this general field of his life to his true troubles. No large pro- | jon of Russian industry is operated ! The utmost endeavors | against y the Keep ever rolling to the shore; But. oh, those twenty-dollar bilis! “They break and they return no more. ! ward our customs authoriti clude from these shores al . i [ | nevertheless official documents and through. com- munications from governments which | are officially represented at the Russian } capital. The average,view of these “ex~ perts” is as follows: Almost all Russian laborers can leave their jobs as they please and go off to try to find other jobs, if they can, just as in the United States. They cannot, howeyer, get food from the government- ally-operated food stores unless they have trade union cards, and they can- not get trade union cards except under rules laid down by the government. The | government ly has a consider- able string tied to their stomachs, It has not yet pulled the string tight enough to justify any com- prehensive application to Russian labor of the word “forced.” Force, has been sanctioned by local village Soviets in the recruiting of local logging gangs for emergency work in the woods in order to keep up with the schedules of production laid down in the famous Russian national “five-year plan” of Russian industrial development. Force | also on a large scale has been used in the driving of peasants off their indi- | vidual farms into governmental collec- | tive farms. Force is forever latent and sometimes outward and apparent in the | Russian _governmental economic pro- gram. Today it cannot be called domi- nant. The pressure of circumstance might possibly make it dominant to- morrow, * % %% Such is most of the comment of the “experts” upon Mr. Woll's allegations. {It will be Mr. Lowman's sad task to | winnow certhinty from surmise in | those allegations during the 17 months between now and January 1, 1932. If he then decides that Russian labor is | broadly “forced” the face of the whole | International trade world may be changed. (Copyrisht, 1930.) R | Grain Rate Revision Uncertain of Effect BY HARDEN COLFAX. The question of who is to be helped | and who is to be hurt as a gesult of the | | readjustment of freight rates on grain ordered by the Interstate Commerce | Commission will be definitely answered | shortly after Octoher 1, when the new tes g0 into effect. That period is the time when grain shipments are at their peak and the effect of the new schedule should soon be apparent. In the meantime, wide diversions of opinion exist. This extends not only to the farmers on the one side and rail- road men on the other, but to the ividual members of the commission self. These members all agree th: freight rates should be revised, but the: disagree as to the effect of the revision on the grain rate structure in the ‘Western district, both for export and | domestic movement. While this change involves some increases, the general imnd is downward and reductions of | | the railroads in revenues under the new | Tate level have been variously estimated | at $15,000,000 to $25.000,000. *x % % Practically every member of the com- | mission wrote a separate opinion re- | very few of the opinions agreed. The | majority of the commission did agree, | however, that the new rate adjustment would eliminate numerous discrimina- { | lation to correct errors. “While the reductions far exceed the | | increases,” said the report, “and the | substantial, the full effect upon rev- enues cannot be jdequately foretold. in | view of the limit; ions upon transit, the { bound from primary markets, «and the | wasteful' competition that should fol- low the reduced level of rates. ‘We are satisfied that the readjust- ment will not threaten the maintenance of an adequate system of transporta- tion. We say this especially in the | light of increased revenues already | granted in certain other cases, and in | the realization that a failure of the present revision to afford adequate revenues will prompt further proceed- ings.” { e i Frank McManamy | “In general, I concur with the conclusions here reached. because I be- | lieve they will bring about a substan- | tial improvement in the existing grain Commissioner said: Capital Sidelights BY WILL P. KENNEDY. “E Pluribus Unum.” Here is a story about Dr. William Henry Holmes, one of three men (out of 2,300 veterans who have worked at least four years beyond retirement age for Uncle Sam) who have been approved Yor indefinite continuance because Uncle Sam just can’t long without their services. Dr. Holmes is 83 years of age ;{M descended from the Rev. Obadiah yea: associated with more diverse pl the Smithsonian Institution's activities than any other individual, as artist, scientifie eer and discoverer, mountain climber, archeologist, author, anthropologist, ang as director of the National Gallery of Arts. But this is of real life in ipated on the ving Indians. Dr. Holmes was saved from the loss of his entire herd of ndm", miles from his base only by this com- edy incident which averted a real "on . ight his head packs & stormy ni packer, one Thomas Cooper, was awakened by the tinkling of the bell on the bell mare. Following the sound, he came upon the horses huddled in a canyon. It was pitch dark. He felt his way cautiously through the herd to the bell mare and raised his hand to catch hold of her lead rope. Just at that lnshntlflmho!ugn- ning revealed an Indian on the other side of the mare likewise reaching for the lead rope. Behind him were other With the lightninglike speed of in- stinet, Cooper threw up his left hand, in which he was carrying a rolled black hat, and thrust it in the Indian's face, letting out a “wheop” that sharply re- verberated through the canyon. Darkness swallowed the tense pic- ture, but Cooper, with agility and still “whooping” for,his life, swung onto the bell mare and headed her for the camp, As & boy pencil and brush. visit to ‘Washington brought about his employ- ment in the Government service as an artist. He was introduced at the Smith sonian Institution by a fellow art stu- dent, Miss Mary Henry, daughter of the first secretary of the institution. On the occasion of his first visit exhibition. A young naturalist, Dr. Jose Zeledon of Costa Rica, chanced to ob- serve the boy artist and invited him upstairs to see a wonderful work on y L ‘There he met a number of scientists, and when it was ascertal ossil shells for Dr. F. B. Meek, the institution’s authority on this branch. work met with instant lp': His , | proval and his official connection witl the Smithsonian began as artist to draw living shells for Dr. W. H. Dall. In the Spring of 1872 the Smith. sonian recommended him for the posi- tion of artist to the United States Geo- logical Survey of the Territories, then under Dr. F. V. Hayden. His work covered the survey of Yellowstone Na- tional Park, of Colorado and the great ranges of the Rocky Mountains. He is the first person known to have reached the summit of the then mys- terious Mountain of the Holy Cross, and in 1876 climbed 11 peaks averaging 13,000 feet in height and was the first to reach the summit in every climb. Dr. Holmes, as he drifted into sci- entific successes, did not aliow his de- votion to art to be eclipsed. as is shown by his nt ition as director of the National G of Art. He spent &, large part of the years 1879 and 1880 in Munich, Rome, Venice and Nagles, actively studying and sketching. In the Autumn of His dra this wonds of the Suvey for that year -n'grln the large atlas which appeared R Capone Shows te Contrary. Prom the Lynchburg News. Beery Church Padlocked. Prom the Cleveland News. cause beer was sold in it. in every wav we are getting more more confused in the matter. ————— What a Guess! Prom the Akron Beacon Journal If the apple made Adam become as one of the gods. our guess iz that he squeezed the juice out and let it a while. ——————— Has to Find Throne. Prom the Roanoke Times. Another Hapsburg is desirous of sit- ting on the throne of Austria. But he msut find it before he can =it on it produce a situation which will require emergency remedies if we are to main- tem of transportation.’” = x x % Commissioner Eastman said. among other things: “That grain agriculture is depressed admits, I believe. of no doubt. Respondents contend to the contrary, but it is inconceivable that the cries THE BY FREDERIC ‘The recent extraordinary scene in the House of Commons when & member laid desecrating hands upon the sacred mace to the horror of all but four present shows how even a thousand-year-old tradition once in a while may suffer in- dignity. The. interesting thing is that our own mace in our national House of Representatives is held in equal vener- ation and guarded as sedulously. ‘The mace in & urulmmurg or civie is the supreme symbol of the thority of the m::. 'I-I A nanimate ‘object, 1t 1s respected a3 the symbolic representation of the power of all. To touch it fanely, therefore, is to ane on lay his | the state itself. It is a crime as heinous as the desecration of a heathen idol— and, in heathen countries, that is likely to mean death. Idols are sacred objects in both civilized and savage countries, in h chflx:nhn and lands. itions. . Penner Brockway of London, a Left wing mem- ber of Commons and & man well known in the United States as a lec- turer, had beem suspended by Speaker of the House. Mr. Brockway is, perhaps, the gentlest soul in the three kin . During the World War he suffered imprisonment at hard labor 8s a conscientious objector, al- POWER OF THE J. HASKIN. raw deputy the job was he was utterly unschooled. into the hall, the Speake: the mace’ behind his seized it. It looked like a stout noticed though there were ample evidences that | peak he was not ing in personal courage. His. suspension was itated * by his protest against the refusal of the government bench to answer certain in- tories the situation in Gan ation. Mr. Brockway emphat sisted that the subject be not changed until certain points on India were set- tled. So he was suspended. ‘Whereupon John Beckett, another Lib- eral member and supporter of Brock- to say there was a terrific . Honorable members leaped from their sleep ‘like jack-in-the-boxes and, as one man, hurled themselves upon the offending Beckett. Sir Colin ined that he | oy ironical origin. They weapons fof use in battle and S A e ages. The went into battle like any other notabies, canonical law forbade a priest to shed blood. ruled out the sword or the lance. Nothing was said in tie tive. Richard Coeur de Lion habitually and the earthly troubles any one who ever got in the way Richard's mace were over forever. ‘Having, therefore, ecclesiastical tion and background. it was natural 2 the state. ‘When Oliver Cromwell took over the Charles years who has dared to desecrate that mace.” British Parliament Adjourns With Din BY A. G. GARDINER, Engiand's Greatest Liberal Editor. Wing, made a speech in the country savagely attacking Premier MacDonald, . Thomas and the m‘zs as top-] specity Snowden, for the go & judicial inquiry re of the names by a severe rebuke to Sandham addressed of distress which have. risen from the! amigd the silence of the whole House. ‘Western land are wholly, or even large- ly. fictitious. The evidence warTants no such conclusion. This d is & fact to be taken into consideration along with other pertinent facts in determining what rates are reasonable. The extent to which the farmer will benefit from reductions is uncertain. He may and y will be helped a little, but it will not go far to solve | the agricultural problem. That, how-' ever, lies beyond our province.”™ i Commissicner Porter was considerably | out of harmdny with his colleagues. | “The conclusions of the majority in| this case.” he declared. “present another The rates here established will & measure of relief to some of “My main difficulty with the report ! ex- | IS the level of rates prescrived. They ! ments. jare. in my judgment. far too low. myl | will invoive a reduction of at least $15.000,000 in the revenues of carriers in the Western ha ! E P § H grains and their products will | apply to both demestic and againss tt was Oliver Baldwin. the Socialist son of the Conservative lesder, Stanley) Baldwin. The incident accentuates the bitter feud in the Labor party between the ex- trmists and the ma- a Labor trade jority, which foreshadows debacle at the next election. The second storm arose cver the de- Dttnll; Fifty Years Ago In The Star When the following was printed in | The Btar of July 27, 1830, electric wires | Telegraph Poles a head and not in Grave Nuisance. foodus, o5 108 . and the pole | as they exist: at any rate, that is is not going to work itself into an fever to bring about a change. It that the peopile means furthermore the United States have reasonable confl the . That the geography of the coun | is somewhat refiective of the p-:lmg Post Office Names posiod 1y "o i following in The u:'ndhrtthr.swdm “The Post Office is over- Department - run H!hh:pflim:u;l‘m:u new post of- itic presidential candidates. 5 { and Democrat But the ¢kclusion of Simon was the subject of much cri David Lioyd and A betiatn i | i Wil R 1 i i | i i ng | R |